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Technical deep dives and perspectives on the agent economy from the Ampersend team.
I built an HTTP server that verifies the caller is a real ampersend.ai agent, then hands back a promo code for 50% off a day pass at The House in San Francisco. No account. No API key. Just cryptographic proof.
Autonomous AI agents are already spending real money. Projections for AI-driven commerce reach $30 trillion by 2030. We built ampersend to close the governance gap and today, we’re opening the platform to everyone.
At NEARCON this week, we spent a lot of time talking about autonomous systems in practice. But there was one principle I didn’t get enough time to emphasize on stage: modularity. Autonomy at scale without modularity doesn’t reduce risk; it amplifies it.
A multi-agent system mistakenly burned $47,000+ in API costs. No hacker. No breach. Just bad infrastructure controls. With ampersend, every LLM call becomes a real USDC payment with spending limits enforced at the wallet level—when the agent’s budget runs out, the agent stops spending money even if the code keeps running.
